Saturday, December 19, 2009

Nutella Chocolate Truffles -- oodles of delight

If you close your eyes and take a deep breath, you can feel the warm fuzzy feeling of the holidays, warm, gooey, rich, chocolatey like Nutella. If you are out in the mall you can feel the last minute crazy holiday shopping. Both ways you feel the warmth of the season and you need that because it is so darn cold out there that you would want to hibernate.

Christmas always holds a special place in my heart, a convent school does that to you. You spend winter holidays copying red poinsettias and waxing candles from glossy gilted Christmas picture cards and impose those works of art unto gullible relatives, you insist your parents bake or at least get a cake on Christmas because it is Jesus' birthday, you think "Silent Night" is the most melodious thing on earth and you wish you could hang up a stocking.

I appreciate Christmas all the more now, it is at least something to look forward to till Spring makes its arrival. Imagine cold dark winters without a single house with twinkling fairy lights in your neighborhood , how dull would that be. I like it better because I don't have much shopping to do, I can relax and just bask in the holiday feeling.

To light up your cold days, I have something special today. Guess what ? Nutella and Chocolate Truffles. If someone would have told me last week that I would make chocolate truffles I would have muttered "in your dreams". I always thought truffles or anything that sounds as "ruffles" is mighty hard. Right ? Absolutely wrong. These Nutella Chocolate Truffles are so easy that a 8 year old could make it. This absolute gorgeous recipe is from Sunita's Nutella and Dark Chocolate Truffles. I blindly followed her recipe and because S loves decorating sprinkles I used those instead of using nuts etc. to roll the truffles in. I rolled some in cocoa powder though. These were a big surprise for S and she couldn't believe I made them at home. Thanks Sunita.

These make great holiday gifts for the kiddos and their play dates and their Moms and Dads and grandparents and....

In a microwave safe bowl, place all the nutella, dark chocolate, honey and ghee.

Microwave the mixture till the chocolate melts. In my microwave it took about 2 and 1/2 mins at full power

Remove the bowl from the microwave. With a spoon, stir the mixture vigorously till smooth. Magically the mixture will slowly start transforming to a dough. Shape it into a lump, place it again in the bowl. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and chill till the mixture is firm enough to roll into balls. I chilled the dough for about 40 mins.

While rolling, work fast and with your hand make balls by rolling between your palms like you would do for say Coconut Laddoos. Wet your palms to avoid chocolate sticking to the palm.If the mixture begins to feel too soft, chill a little more. Place the balls in mini muffin cups.

If you are rolling the balls in cocoa powder or rolling in sprinkles, do so and chill again before serving. For other ideas see Sunita's recipe.

Take out from the refrigerator a minute before serving to soften it a wee bit.

wow this looks so yum and easy. I wish someone i knew wasn't off desserts. Would have made these right now

we are planning a Christmas party on the 25th for some friends, including blogger ones. Am super excited as i grew up with Christmas parties in the UK and continued in Calcutta. Felt very sad in my first Christmas at Mumbai. It was so lame.

You can't go wrong with Nutella! I too love Christmas, just for the lights and the festive atmosphere all around. Can live with a little less crowd at the malls though. :)Happy Holidays to you and family Sandeepa!

Silent Night is still my favourite - didn't help that I practically grew up in the Anglo Indian home dowsnstairs and went every year for Midnight Mass with them. After college, moved to Bandra - as Catholic as you can get! a close friend is a Christian too so the Midnight Mass tradition continued...

The truffles look very very good - of course S must have been thrilled! :)

nutella truffles, now thats a very unique idea! the dish looks so delicious and perfect for the season! My first time stumbling over your blog, you have a great space here with wonderful recipes and warm writeups :)

Sandeepa,i love the warmth of Christmas even though I am not one of them ..you know Kolkata te its like mad rush outside cake shops and malls "Boro Din" Bole kotha , tai to !!Nutella , hain never tried anything near to it ..lets see where can I get this one ..Festive Greetings and happy Holidayshugs and smiles

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